Response of Diesel Combustion Systems to Increase of Fuel Injection Rate

1979 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Greeves
Keyword(s):  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Injection Rate ◽  
Diesel Combustion ◽  
Combustion Systems ◽  
Fuel Injection Rate

scholarly journals A Study of Combustion Characteristics of Two Gasoline–Biodiesel Mixtures on RCEM Using Various Fuel Injection Pressures

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (12) ◽  
pp. 3265
Author(s):  
Ardhika Setiawan ◽  
Bambang Wahono ◽  
Ocktaeck Lim
Keyword(s):  
Heat Release ◽  
Ignition Delay ◽  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Injection Pressure ◽  
Fuel Mixture ◽  
Injection Rate ◽  
Injection Duration ◽  
Late Start ◽  
Fuel Injection Rate ◽  
Injection Pressures

Experimental research was conducted on a rapid compression and expansion machine (RCEM) that has characteristics similar to a gasoline compression ignition (GCI) engine, using two gasoline–biodiesel (GB) blends—10% and 20% volume—with fuel injection pressures varying from 800 to 1400 bar. Biodiesel content lower than GB10 will result in misfires at fuel injection pressures of 800 bar and 1000 bar due to long ignition delays; this is why GB10 was the lowest biodiesel blend used in this experiment. The engine compression ratio was set at 16, with 1000 µs of injection duration and 12.5 degree before top dead center (BTDC). The results show that the GB20 had a shorter ignition delay than the GB10, and that increasing the injection pressure expedited the autoignition. The rate of heat release for both fuel mixes increased with increasing fuel injection pressure, although there was a degradation of heat release rate for the GB20 at the 1400-bar fuel injection rate due to retarded in-cylinder peak pressure at 0.24 degree BTDC. As the ignition delay decreased, the brake thermal efficiency (BTE) decreased and the fuel consumption increased due to the lack of air–fuel mixture homogeneity caused by the short ignition delay. At the fuel injection rate of 800 bar, the GB10 showed the worst efficiency due to the late start of combustion at 3.5 degree after top dead center (ATDC).

Suppression of Instabilities in Gaseous Fuel High-Pressure Combustor Using Non-Coherent Oscillatory Fuel Injection

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Shcherbik ◽  
E. Lubarsky ◽  
Y. Neumeier ◽  
B. T. Zinn ◽  
K. McManus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
High Pressure ◽  
Active Control ◽  
Fuel Injection ◽  
Injection Rate ◽  
Open Loop ◽  
Combustion Instabilities ◽  
Open Loop Control ◽  
Pressure Oscillations ◽  
Loop Control ◽  
Fuel Injection Rate

This paper describes the application of active, open loop, control in effective damping of severe combustion instabilities in a high pressure (i.e., around 520 psi) gas turbine combustor simulator. Active control was applied by harmonic modulation of the fuel injection rate into the combustor. The open-loop active control system consisted of a pressure sensor and a fast response actuating valve. To determine the dependence of the performance of the active control system upon the frequency, the fuel injection modulation frequency was varied between 300 and 420 Hz while the frequency of instability was around 375 Hz. These tests showed that the amplitude of the combustor pressure oscillations strongly depended upon the frequency of the open loop control. In fact, the amplitude of the combustor pressure oscillations varied ten fold over the range of investigated frequencies, indicating that applying the investigated open loop control approach at the appropriate frequency could effectively damp detrimental combustion instabilities. This was confirmed in subsequent tests in which initiation of open loop modulation of the fuel injection rate at a non resonant frequency of 300Hz during unstable operation with peak to peak instability amplitude of 114 psi and a frequency of 375Hz suppressed the instability to a level of 12 psi within approximately 0.2 sec (i.e., 75 periods). Analysis of the time dependence of the spectra of the pressure oscillations during suppression of the instability strongly suggested that the open loop fuel injection rate modulation effectively damped the instability by “breaking up” (or preventing the establishment of) the feedback loop between the reaction rate and combustor oscillations that drove the instability.

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